This week we're celebrating Black heroes due to it being Juneteenth. Per wikitree.com I
am:
18 degrees from Frederick Douglass
22 degrees from Maya Angelou
27 degrees from Arthur Ashe
30 degrees from Angela Bassett
32 degrees from Anton de Kom
28 degrees from Medgar Evers
22 degrees from Alicia Keys
25 degrees from Willie O'Ree
27 degrees from Jesse Owens
24 degrees from Lawrence Roberts
22 degrees from Denzel Washington
23 degrees from Portia White
More about them:
Frederick Douglass, formerly-enslaved abolitionist leader
Maya Angelou, poet and author
Arthur Ashe, tennis player
Angela Bassett, actress
Anton de Kom, resistance fighter during World War II and journalist
Medgar Evers, civil rights activist
Alicia Keys, musician
Willie O'Ree, hockey player
Jesse Owens, track and field star
Lawrence Roberts, Tuskegee airman and war hero
Denzel Washington, actor
Portia May White, operatic contralto
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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians, politicians, poets, popes, writers. I guess that
I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are.
https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters.
If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me some basic information by going to:
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and click on the 'Request Form' link.
I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history,
and I would love to see how WE are related.
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